Toolkit: Strengthening smallholder institutions and organizations

The toolkit is composed of the following documents:

• Teaser: introduces IFAD's approach to supporting smallholder institutions and organizations and highlights some of the challenges, opportunities and experiences that have come to light over decades of working with them.
• How To Do Note - How to analyse and strengthen social capital: guide design and country teams in conducting an initial analysis of organizations and their capacity development needs at the project design stage. It provides a conceptual framework and practical suggestions and tools to help practitioners systematically collate and summarize information captured during design missions
• How To Do Note - How to support community-based commodity organizations: examines parameters affecting how smallholder farmers engage with business to maximize new opportunities.
• How To Do Note - How to support community-based finance organizations: designed to improve understanding of different types of community-based financial organizations and the support structures they need to best serve remote poor rural communities.
• How To Do Note - How to strengthen community-based natural resource management organizations: defines the types of  community-based natural resource management organizations (CBNRMO) that manage or co-manage common resources and identifies basic principles to consider when providing support to create or strengthen an operationally sustainable CBNRMO.
• Lessons learned on Strengthening smallholder institutions and organizations
• Scaling up note: Smallholder institutions and organizations: describes how smallholder organizations can potentially generate socio-economic benefits for large numbers of poor people.